The suit, filed by Yintao Yu in a San Francisco court, comes as political pressure has been growing in the US to ban TikTok. Critics say the popular platform allows Beijing to covertly collect users' data and influence their opinions — something the company denies. The issue of access to personal data on American users has aroused growing concern among US authorities. The White House recently threatened to ban TikTok in the US unless ByteDance sold it to an American company. ByteDance and TikTok did not immediately respond on Saturday to an AFP request for comment.
